Power Platform Dev Weekly #189

Anwesha Sharma

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Danish N.

Nov 22, 2023

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With lot of fantastic announcements at Ignite we have the cover story and videos on the Copilot Studio.

Microsoft feature releases and announcements

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🥇 Cover Story

Build your own Copilot with Low Code
by Low Code Lewis
In this post Lewis show you how to use Power Virtual Agents, to start building your own Copilot! Yes, you heard it right your own Copilot.

💎 Model Driven Apps & Dataverse

Set Your Preferred Solution in Power Apps for Enhanced Customization
by Inogic
Microsoft has introduced a game-changing feature recently – ‘Set the Preferred Solution.’ With this feature, you can designate your unmanaged solution as the preferred one, ensuring that any new elements you create or modifications you make will reside in your chosen solution. This article describes how to enable this feature.

Dataverse: Let’s Try Elastic Table (Preview)
by Temmy Wahyu Raharjo
Elastic Table is the new way to store data in Azure Cosmos DB for heavier workloads with unstructured or semi-structured (NoSQL) data models. In thius post, we will learn how to use these tables in Dataverse.

🏋️‍♂️ Canvas Apps

Modern Controls and themes within the Canvas App
by Inogic
Check out this post to know how modern controls and themes have improved the unified interface for forms built with Canvas Apps, providing users with a more efficient and streamlined experience.

😎 Power Automate

Send A Text Message (SMS, MMS) With Power Automate For Free
by Matthew Devaney
Power Automate can send a free text message to a mobile phone by using something called an email to text gateway.So this technique is best used for internal company use-cases where you can ask people for their mobile phone company’s name or get a list of company supplied phones.

Power Automate Cloud Flows designer using Copilot | Now in GA
by Priyesh Wagh
Here’s a look at how you can use Copilot in your scenarios while designing Cloud Flows!

🌎 Power Pages

Online payments in Power Pages
by Nick Doelman
Microsoft has just released in preview a new out-of-the-box (preview) feature to allow the collection of payments in a Power Pages multistep form using Stripe. Nick talks about a scenario where you can configure a multistep form to collect donations via Stripe.

Resolving Power Automate Visibility Issue in Power Pages Editor: A Step-by-Step Guide
by The Techie dood
The Techie dood provides a workaround to fix the issue around Power Automate flows not being immediately visible in the target instance’s Power Pages site post deployment.

Speed up the development time for building websites with Power Pages Copilot
by Low Code Lewis
More Copilot and AI news friends, that's correct! In this post, Lewis will be showing you how you can say goodbye to the days of spending weeks and months building websites.

👍 Everything else in Power Platform

Flag conversations with low sentiment in Omnichannel for supervisor review
by Lewis Baybutt
Lewis shows a way to notify conversations with a very negative sentiment flagged for review to supervisor, thereby enabling faster resolution.